The following list of broad-leaved herbs can be readily grown in New Zealand gardens:
Aciphylla dieffenbachii
Common name: Dieffenbach’s speargrass, soft speargrass, coxella
Family: Apiaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable
Anaphalioides bellidioides
Common name: Hells Bells
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Azorella polaris
Family: Apiaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Celmisia holosericea
Common name: Mountain daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Celmisia lindsayi
Common name: Lindsay’s Daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Celmisia mackaui
Common name: Banks Peninsula Daisy, Akaroa Daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Celmisia semicordata subsp. semicordata
Common name: Large mountain daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Celmisia sessiliflora
Common name: White cushion mountain daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Celmisia traversii
Common name: Mountain daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Celmisia verbascifolia subsp. verbascifolia
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Elatostema rugosum
Common name: Parataniwha, New Zealand Begonia
Family: Urticaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Euphorbia glauca
Common name: Shore spurge, sea spurge, waiu-atua, sand milkweed
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Forstera tenella
Family: Stylidiaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Fuchsia procumbens
Common name: Creeping fuchsia, climbing or trailing fuchsia
Family: Onagraceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Geranium sessiliflorum var. arenarium
Common name: Short-flowered cranesbill
Family: Geraniaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Geranium traversii
Common name: Chatham Island geranium
Family: Geraniaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Geum uniflorum
Common name: Alpine avens
Family: Rosaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Gingidia montana
Common name: Mountain aniseed, New Zealand aniseed
Family: Apiaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Gunnera hamiltonii
Family: Gunneraceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Critical
Gunnera prorepens
Family: Gunneraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Lepidium oleraceum
Common name: Nau, Cooks scurvy grass
Family: Brassicaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Endangered
Leucogenes leontopodium
Common name: North Island Edelweiss
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Lobelia angulata
Common name: Pratia
Family: Campanulaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Lobelia physaloides
Common name: Colensoa, koru
Family: Campanulaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable
Myosotidium hortensium
Common name: Kopakopa, Chatham Island Forget-me-not, Kopukapuka
Family: Boraginaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable
Myosotis colensoi
Common name: Castle Hill forget-me not, NZ forget-me-not
Family: Boraginaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Critical
Myosotis macrantha
Common name: Bronze forget-me-not
Family: Boraginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Ourisia macrophylla subsp. macrophylla
Common name: Mountain foxglove
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Ranunculus insignis
Common name: Korikori, hairy alpine or mountain buttercup
Family: Ranunculaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Ranunculus lyallii
Common name: Giant, great mountain or Mount Cook buttercup, Mount Cook lily
Family: Ranunculaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Ranunculus sericophyllus
Common name: Silky alpine buttercup
Family: Ranunculaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Raoulia grandiflora
Common name: Large-flowered mat daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Raoulia hookeri var. hookeri
Common name: Scabweed, scabweed mat daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Scleranthus biflorus
Common name: Canberra grass
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Sonchus grandifolius
Common name: Chatham Island sow thistle, Embergeria
Family: Asteraceae
Status: At Risk – Recovering
Wahlenbergia albomarginata subsp. albomarginata
Common name: New Zealand harebell, harebell
Family: Campanulaceae
Status: Not Threatened
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